Set up Find My Friends

If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is using iOS 9 or later, Find My Friends is automatically installed. If your device is using a version of iOS 8, install the free Find My Friends app. When you sign in to iCloud on your device, you automatically sign in to Find My Friends with your Apple ID.

If you want to get Find My Friends notifications on your Apple Watch, go to the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Then go to the My Watch tab, tap Notifications, scroll down, tap Find Friends, and tap to turn on Mirror iPhone alerts. If you're using watchOS 4 or later, you can also turn notifications on from your Apple Watch. Go to Settings > General > Location Services. Then turn on Share My Location.

With the Find My Friends app on iCloud.com, you can only see your friends and their location or change settings for sharing your location. To add friends, you need to use an iOS device.

Hide your location

You can hide or stop sharing your location with your friends. Just follow these steps:

Open Find My Friends and tap Me. Then turn off Share My Location.

Tap Done. You'll see Not sharing location next to Me at the bottom of the screen.

Stop sharing your location

If you don't want your friends to see your location in Find My Friends, you can stop sharing from the app on your iOS device or on iCloud.com. You can still see the location of your friends, but your friends see Location Not Available when they try to locate you.

Use Find My Friends on multiple devices

You can use Find My Friends on any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Watch that you own. However, only one iOS device can send your location to your followers. You can choose which one to use in Find My Friends:

This choice only appears when you're currently signed in to Find My Friends on multiple devices.

Send and accept location requests

Your friends can send you a request to follow your location. If you accept someone's request, that person can then see your location. If you want to see that person's location, you must invite them, and they must accept your invitation.

If you accept a request from a friend that you’re not following, a follow request is automatically sent to your friend.

Friends and followers limits

You can follow up to 100 friends.

Up to 100 friends can follow you.

Learn more

Your location is sent from your device only when someone requests to see it. Your location isn't transmitted on a regular interval. For more information, see the iCloud security and privacy overview.